Linuxlookup.com is reporting on the release of Gentoo Linux 2006.1. Building on the strengths of previous releases and featuring all of Gentoo's well-documented flexibility, performance and portability, this release is now available on all supported architectures. The most popular architectures now use GCC 4.1, glibc 2.4 and baselayout 1.12.1, as well as including a new profile layout, with seperate desktop and server profiles.

I keep my main system updated almost to the day. I have had GCC 4.1.1 as my main compiler for some time now so that wasn't a big issue for me. I just relinked my profile to 2006.1 and "emerge -auDv world". Not too bad at all. It makes me cringe when I think of the last time I upgraded a binary system, which was from Redhat 8 to Redhat 9. That was a nightmare. It never quite worked right and I had to backup and reinstall anyway. I have had the same Gentoo system running for three years now.